Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.